mb_ord

(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)

mb_ordGet Unicode code point of character

Description

mb_ord(string $string, ?string $encoding = null): int|false

Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.

This function complements mb_chr().

Parameters

string

A string

encoding

The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, the internal character encoding value will be used.

Return Values

The Unicode code point for the first character of string or false on failure.

Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 encoding is nullable now.

Examples

<?php
var_dump
(mb_ord("A", "UTF-8"));
var_dump(mb_ord("🐘", "UTF-8"));
var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "ISO-8859-1"));
var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "Windows-1252"));
?>

The above example will output:


int(65)
int(128024)
int(128)
int(8364)

See Also

  • mb_internal_encoding() - Set/Get internal character encoding
  • mb_chr() - Return character by Unicode code point value
  • IntlChar::ord() - Return Unicode code point value of character
  • ord() - Convert the first byte of a string to a value between 0 and 255

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Andrew
4 years ago
You can forget about DIY uniord()
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php#42778

$array['Б'] = uniord('Б');
$array['🚷'] = uniord('🚷');
$array['mb_ord Б'] = mb_ord('Б');
$array['mb_ord 🚷'] = mb_ord('🚷');

function uniord($charUTF8)
{
$charUCS4 = mb_convert_encoding($charUTF8, 'UCS-4BE', 'UTF-8');
$byte1 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 0, 1));
$byte2 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 1, 1));
$byte3 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 2, 1));
$byte4 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 3, 1));
return ($byte1 << 32) + ($byte2 << 16) + ($byte3 << 8) + $byte4;
}

var_export($array);

Shows:

array ( 'Б' => 1041, '🚷' => 128695, 'mb_ord Б' => 1041, 'mb_ord 🚷' => 128695, )

https://unicode-table.com/en/0411/
Б
Encoding     hex     dec (bytes)     dec     binary
UTF-8         D0 91     208 145     53393     11010000 10010001
UTF-16BE     04 11     4 17     1041     00000100 00010001
UTF-16LE     11 04     17 4     4356     00010001 00000100
UTF-32BE     00 00 04 11     0 0 4 17     1041     00000000 00000000 00000100 00010001
UTF-32LE     11 04 00 00     17 4 0 0     285474816     00010001 00000100 00000000 00000000

https://unicode-table.com/en/1F6B7/
🚷
Encoding     hex     dec (bytes)     dec     binary
UTF-8         F0 9F 9A B7     240 159 154 183     4036991671     11110000 10011111 10011010 10110111
UTF-16BE     D8 3D DE B7     216 61 222 183     3627933367     11011000 00111101 11011110 10110111
UTF-16LE     3D D8 B7 DE     61 216 183 222     1037613022     00111101 11011000 10110111 11011110
UTF-32BE     00 01 F6 B7     0 1 246 183     128695     00000000 00000001 11110110 10110111
UTF-32LE     B7 F6 01 00     183 246 1 0     3086352640     10110111 11110110 00000001 00000000
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